Claudio Fantinuoli — Language Technologies — Innovation, Research & Management
I am the creator of InterpretBank and Interpreter24, innovator, and professor at Mainz University. I occasionally write on my blog and as a technology columnist for Multilingual.
As a product builder and C-level executive, I build products and help companies and public institutions navigate the ways artificial intelligence is transforming communication. Multilingual magazine listed me among the 16 thought leaders shaping the future of the language industry.
I also serve as a technology and AI advisor to private companies, including Voiseed, where we build voices for high-end dubbing, and to public institutions, including the European Parliament. My advisory work includes strategic consulting, AI-driven team transformation, and the development of innovative prototypes.
Personally, I am fascinated by the intersection of mind, brain - also computational models of it - and language.
You can contact me at: info@fantinuoli.org
Recent blog posts
- Beyond ‘Good Enough’: Asking the Harder Question About AI Translation
The debate about whether AI translation is good enough risks mistaking a transitional moment for the future. What happens to professional expertise if the technology becomes very good?
- Strange Times: Living Through the Great AI Divide
I have never experienced anything quite like this in my life: a divide, among genuinely intelligent, informed people, that runs this deep, this evenly, and this fast.
- End-to-end versus cascading AI interpreting
End-to-end speech translation is moving from research prototypes into usable systems. The important question is no longer whether the architecture works, but what it changes in our understanding of interpreting, control, latency and human expertise.
- Empathy: The Last Frontier
Anyone following the debate on machine interpreting knows the sequence of arguments by heart. First we were told: the machine will never be accurate enough. Interpreting is too complex, too contextual, too ambiguous for an automatic system to render faithfully. Then accuracy improved exponentially, and across many domains and language pairs the gap narrowed until,…
- The End of Translation and Interpreting Studies as we know them
People were thinking seriously about translation long before anyone thought of studying it. Cicero, defending his renderings of the Attic orators, already distinguished between translating ut interpres and ut orator — word for word, or sense for sense. Jerome wrestled with the same dilemma in his letter to Pammachius; Luther defended his German Bible against…